Protesting traders, under the aegis of
National Market Women Association,
Monday, stormed the National Assembly,
demanding that the Academic Staff Union
of Universities, ASUU, call off its more
than three months old strike.
The protesters, who had been at the
Ministry of Education and Office of the
Head of Service, arrived the Assembly
complex at 11.30a.m.
President-General of the group, Mrs
Felicia Sani, who led the more than 200
protesting women, said: “We are tired of
seeing our children at home. We want our
children back in school. Enough of this
cheap blackmail.
“We all know what they do with our year-
one daughters in the university. We
equally know that they sell handouts and
handbooks.
“Is this not worse than corruption of the
highest order?”
On FG/ASUU agreement
Asked why she did not criticise the
Federal Government for failing to reach
an agreement with ASUU, Mrs Sani said:
“Which agreement? How do you expect
lecturers in state universities to earn
same salaries as Federal ones? That is
impossible.
“We are not educated, but you do not
expect a hotel in my village to cost same
price as a hotel in Abuja.
“They are located in different places. So
how can a state university lecturer earn
same salary with his federal counterpart?
“We are begging them for the last time. If
we come out again we may have to chase
them out of this country and replace them
with so many jobless Nigerians.”
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